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NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

 GoForce was a line of chipsets that was used mainly in handheld devices such as PDAs

Personal digital assistant

A personal digital assistant , also known as a palmtop computer, or personal data assistant, is a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager. Current PDAs often have the ability to connect to the Internet...

 and mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

s. It has been replaced by the Nvidia Tegra series of SoC

System-on-a-chip

A system on a chip or system on chip is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single chip substrate...

s.

GoForce 2150

Featuring 1.3-megapixel camera support, JPEG

JPEG

In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....

 support, and 2D acceleration.
Supports 3-megapixel images with the upgrade.

GoForce 3000/GoForce 4000

The GoForce 4000 supports 3.0-megapixel camera and MPEG-4

MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC...

/H.263

H.263

H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bitrate compressed format for videoconferencing. It was developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group in a project ending in 1995/1996 as one member of the H.26x family of video coding standards in the domain of the ITU-T.H.263...

 codec, whilst GoForce 3000 is a low-cost version of the GoForce 4000 with limited features.

GoForce 4500

Features 3D graphics support with a geometry processor and programmable pixel shaders, used in the Gizmondo

Gizmondo

The Gizmondo is a handheld gaming console which was released by Tiger Telematics in March 2005. The electronics design was undertaken by Plextek Limited and the industrial design by Rick Dickinson....

 device.

GoForce 5500

The GoForce 5500 is a multimedia processor. It can decode video and audio formats, such as WMV, WMA, MP3, MP4, MPEG, JPEG and supports H.264. Also including a 24-bit 64-voice sound processor with supports up to 32 MB of external memory, 10-megapixel camera support,
and 3D graphics engine version 2.

GoForce 5300

Equipped with 2.25 MiB

MIB

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 embedded DRAM (eDRAM

EDRAM

eDRAM stands for "embedded DRAM", a capacitor-based dynamic random access memory integrated on the same die as an ASIC or processor. The cost-per-bit is higher than for stand-alone DRAM chips but in many applications the performance advantages of placing the eDRAM on the same chip as the processor...

) on TSMC's 65 nm process, being the first in the GoForce product line. Its multimedia technology is claimed to be similar to the 5500's, but it does not sport a 3D engine and only supports much smaller screens.

GoForce 6100

The latest chipset in the series, the GoForce 6100, claiming the first applications processor by NVIDIA , adds 10-megapixel camera support and integrated 802.11b/g support (with external RF), based on a 130 nm process . It contains a 250MHz ARM1176JZ-S core.

Implementations

• Acer N300 PDA
• HTC Foreseer
• iMate Ultimate 6150
• iMate Ultimate 8150
• iRiver G10
• Kyocera W41K
• Kyocera W51K
• Kyocera W52k
• LG KC 8100
• Mitsubishi M900
• Motorola E770v
• Motorola RAZR V3x
• Motorola RAZR V3xx
• Motorola RAZR2 V9
• Motorola RAZR maxx V6
• O2 Xda Flame
• Samsung i310
• Samsung SGH-P910
• Samsung SGH-P940
• Samsung Sync SGH-A707
• Sandisk Sansa View
• Sendo X
• Sharp EM-ONE S01SH
• SimCom S788
• Sony Ericsson W900
• Toshiba Portege G900

External links

• Nvidia's GoForce Product Page